2018-02-16T20:56:00.000000000+00:00
Theresa May will tell world leaders and politicians at the annual global security conference in Munich that Britain will continue to contribute to the security of Europe but a new security treaty needs to be reached.

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Reuters

2018-02-17T18:35:20.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has drawn a new accusation of bank fraud from U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office, according to court documents made public on Friday.

2018-02-17T18:25:38.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Russian propaganda arm oversaw a criminal and espionage conspiracy to tamper in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign to support Donald Trump and disparage Hillary Clinton, said an indictment released on Friday that revealed more details than previously known about Moscow's...

2018-02-17T16:14:34.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will start using postcards sent by U.S. mail later this year to verify the identities and location of people who want to purchase U.S. election-related advertising on its site, a senior company executive said on Saturday.

2018-02-17T14:56:42.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, under pressure to act, strengthened the process for security clearances for President Donald Trump's aides on Friday in response to a scandal involving a former official accused of domestic abuse by two ex-wives.

2018-02-17T09:40:38.000000000-05:00
PROVO, Utah (Reuters) - Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, announced on Friday he would run for a U.S. Senate seat in Utah, confirming months of speculation about a return to national politics.

2018-02-16T20:37:53.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump had an affair with a Playboy model at the same time he was in a relationship with a porn star and the National Enquirer tabloid paid the model $150,000 to prevent her story being made public, the New Yorker reported on Friday.

2018-02-16T20:16:16.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief of staff to U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, named in a report that found "serious derelictions" in a visit to Europe by Shulkin, will retire, the Department of Veterans Affairs said on Friday.

2018-02-16T18:58:48.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This was supposed to be “Infrastructure Week” for U.S. President Donald Trump, a time to unveil a long-promised plan to create jobs by revitalizing America's roads and bridges.

2018-02-16T18:40:39.000000000-05:00
(Reuters) - Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russian individuals and three organizations for allegedly interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election sets the stage for the prosecution of Americans who may have helped the Russian effort, some legal experts said.

2018-02-18T00:05:29.000000000+00:00
Crisis-hit party chooses figure who said Islam is ‘death cult’ as new leaderMembers of Ukip voted yesterday to sack Henry Bolton, who had been elected only last September as the crisis-hit party’s fourth leader in 18 months. Bolton had been clinging on to the leadership despite a revolt by senior...

2018-02-18T00:04:29.000000000+00:00
Diplomats said ‘offending Trump’ was reason for decision not to host historic session in WashingtonThe British embassy in Washington backtracked on promises to host a session of the parliamentary inquiry into fake news, because of worries it might offend Donald Trump, the Observer has learned.Bar...

2018-02-18T00:03:29.000000000+00:00
Amid anger at Oxfam, where are the voices of those who turn a blind eye to exploited women at home?Finally, something on which we can agree: charity officials ought not to buy sex. No one, so far, seems prominently to have argued, of the Oxfam employees’ misconduct in Haiti and Liberia, that, pr...

2018-02-18T00:03:29.000000000+00:00
The only question for the SNP is how long to wait before calling a new vote on independenceLike a drunk man leaving the dance floor, the UK’s slow, anarchic exit from the EU continues and the Scottish nationalists can scarce believe the abundance of fresh opportunities that have landed at their f...

2018-02-18T00:03:29.000000000+00:00
Geographical inequalities are the result of historical legacies and a fractured economyPlace has always been destiny in Britain, but never more so than in 2018. Pity the child born in Weymouth, Corby or Carlisle, locked into poor schools, a lacklustre economy and few decent jobs; if he or she had...

2018-02-18T00:02:29.000000000+00:00
Steven Pinker dismisses our unequal society too easily – the poorest are being left further behind than ever beforeSteven Pinker certainly provides much food for thought (“Enlighten me…”, the New Review).He is right to emphasise “the extraordinary progress that humankind has made in the past coup...

2018-02-18T00:02:29.000000000+00:00
Only a tiny proportion of the party’s voters last year strongly wanted to leave the EU – opposing a disastrous Brexit will shake up the electoral mapRecently, there has been story after story about Brexit ministers giving speeches laying out a road map. This is apart from the chancellor, who has ...

2018-02-17T22:12:02.000000000+00:00
Council leader and local MP Stella Creasy under fire over housing proposals where just 20% of homes will be ‘affordable’A new controversy over the use of public-private housing schemes has erupted in one of Labour’s north London strongholds, closely mirroring the row in neighbouring Haringey that...

2018-02-17T21:01:25.000000000+00:00
As 20,000 Labour members protest at party stance on Brexit, former leader adds pressure to resist leaving EUJeremy Corbyn has come under intense pressure to shift Labour’s position on Brexit after 20,000 members demanded a say over the issue and former leader Neil Kinnock backed halting Britain’s...

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The Huffington Post

2018-02-17T22:10:15.000000000+00:00
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit south Wales on Saturday, causing tremors to be felt across western Britain.
The quake’s epicentre was 10km north east of Swansea, according to monitors EMSC.
Yet while the earthquake came as a shock to many people, especially as it is the largest quake to hit the ...

2018-02-17T22:10:15.000000000+00:00
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit south Wales on Saturday, causing tremors to be felt across western Britain.
The quake’s epicentre was 10km north east of Swansea, according to monitors EMSC.
Yet while the earthquake came as a shock to many people, especially as it is the largest quake to hit the ...

2018-02-17T22:09:45.000000000+00:00
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit south Wales on Saturday, causing tremors to be felt across western Britain.The quake’s epicentre was 10km north east of Swansea, according to monitors EMSC. Yet while the earthquake came as a shock to many people, especially as it is the largest quake to hit the are...

2018-02-17T20:54:39.000000000+00:00
“He’s from the secret service.” It wasn’t entirely clear if 76-year-old Ukip member John Howsam was joking, but he had gone to the effort of making a sign reading: “MI6 plant to destroy Ukip – Henry Bolton must go”, so it was a pretty strong commitment to a gag.
Waiting to enter the cavernous ha...

2018-02-17T20:54:39.000000000+00:00
“He’s from the secret service.” It wasn’t entirely clear if 76-year-old Ukip member John Howsam was joking, but he had gone to the effort of making a sign reading: “MI6 plant to destroy Ukip – Henry Bolton must go”, so it was a pretty strong commitment to a gag.
Waiting to enter the cavernous ha...

2018-02-17T20:26:52.000000000+00:00
“He’s from the secret service.” It wasn’t entirely clear if 76-year-old Ukip member John Howsam was joking, but he had gone to the effort of making a sign reading: “MI6 plant to destroy Ukip – Henry Bolton must go”, so it was a pretty strong commitment to a gag.Waiting to enter the cavernous hall...

2018-02-17T19:58:16.000000000+00:00
Ukip’s interim leader, who once called Islam a “death cult” and proposed that Muslims sign a special code of conduct rejecting violence, has been described as a “disaster” for the party’s political future.
Gerard Batten has taken over from ousted Henry Bolton, who lost his position after nearly ...

2018-02-17T19:58:16.000000000+00:00
Ukip’s interim leader, who once called Islam a “death cult” and proposed that Muslims sign a special code of conduct rejecting violence, has been described as a “disaster” for the party’s political future.
Gerard Batten has taken over from ousted Henry Bolton, who lost his position after nearly ...

2018-02-17T19:52:53.000000000+00:00
Ukip’s interim leader, who once called Islam a “death cult” and proposed that Muslims sign a special code of conduct rejecting violence, has been described as a “disaster” for the party’s political future.Gerard Batten has taken over from ousted Henry Bolton, who lost his position after nearly tw...

2018-02-17T19:07:46.000000000+00:00
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Christopher Bailey promised a celebration of the rainbow - a symbol of inclusiveness and joy - throughout Burberry’s February 2018 collection and his London Fashion Week show certainly delivered the revelry.
From the new five-lined rainbow stripe woven into Burberry’s iconic tan, bla...

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Channel 4

2018-02-17T20:58:34.243000000+00:00
Theresa May says she wants a “deep and special” partnership with Europe after Brexit to make sure the UK and EU continue to work together on security and defence issues. But as more evidence emerges of Russia’s complex cyber interference in the 2016 U.S. election, what kind of new security arrang...

2018-02-17T20:58:34.236000000+00:00
Ukip has lost another leader as members back a no confidence motion against Henry Bolton. Mr Bolton was only in the job for a few months – with the party now left with more uncertainty and another leadership election within 90 days.

2018-02-12T14:08:01.386000000+00:00
Last week, the Freemasons took out a full-page advert in several newspapers claiming that its members felt “stigmatised”. It followed news reports about the fraternal organisation, questioning their influence in policing and politics. In response, the Freemasons called for a change in attitudes a...

2018-02-12T07:54:22.764000000+00:00
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has met Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and called on her to help the Rohingya refugees. Mr Johnson said Burmese authorities should fully investigate the violence against the Rohingya minority and create the ‘right conditions’ for them to return to their homes in...

2018-02-11T02:56:00.125000000+00:00
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has called for the safe and dignified return of the Rohingya people to Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority have fled what the UN has called a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. Speaking during a visit to a refugee camp in Bangladesh, and ah...

2018-02-11T02:56:00.121000000+00:00
The Shadow Chancellor says the Labour Party’s promise to bring services such as water and rail into public ownership would be ‘cost free’ as the price for borrowing to buy them back would be covered by the profits. At a conference today in London John McDonnell called for essential services to be...

2018-02-08T03:48:15.124000000+00:00
There have been calls for new laws to tackle online abuse. But legislation already rules against everything from threats to harassment and grossly offensive messages. So is the problem in policing, rather than the law?

2018-02-04T22:05:27.463000000+00:00
The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has hit back at Conservative Brexiteers saying she had a "surprise" for them - claiming ministers were more united than critics realised. But Eurosceptics are warning that any deal which keeps Britian inside a customs union would be unacceptable.